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â- "crrr Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell Th« object of tht« d«p«rtir«nt I* to plae* at th« »•>•• tie* ot our farm rtadsra tha f dvlea of an acknowleds*4 •uthorlty on all aubjacta pertaining to (olla and crop*. AdCeis all queatlona to Profosaor Henry C. Bell, In "â- ("e of The Wllaon Publlahing Company, Limited, Toronto, u "'•^"'â- * *'" appear In tiil« column 'n the order in '"'nlch they are received. When writlnu kindly mention thia P«per. As space is limited n Is advisable where Immediate '•ply Is necessary that a stamped and addressed envelope *• enclosed vwlth the .question, when the answer will ^e fnalled direct. M. R.: â€" 1. What will destroy ox- eyed daisies? 2. Will red clover make i^ood ensilage? Answer â€" Ox-€y€(l daisies are de- stroyed by constant cultivation. . . If Jour meadow is full of this weed you ad better plow it up and plant a hoed crop such as potatoes, roots or corn for a couple of years. The cul- tivation of these crops will liill out the weed. 2. Red clover cut for ensilage makes fair quality feed. My own experience with clover mixed with corn in the silo ha.s not been entirely satisfactory, but 1 have within a couple of months eeen clover whit-h had been ensiled, coming out in good shape. There is * question of farm chi^mistry involv- ed which does not entirely favor the Vie of clover in the silo. Clover is specially valuable as a hay on ac- count of the hitch per cent, of protein It contains. When the crop is put in the silo the fermentation which goes on in the silo breaks down its protein and largely destroys its flesh produc- ing power. It is therefore economical to make hay out of clover and to put corn in the silo. S. G.: â€" I. I have a few acres of rather heavy marsh land, would this grow barley boiccessfuUy? What variety, when and how much .should be sown for the best results? is bar- ley straw good for feed a.s oat straw? /!i^'meJ oAe. teacklnauA thdttfiekc onom^ in bmuing the cApMpeht aoodi not tke/o'ncu hian policed onzi. Is millet BOo«i feed for dairy cows? .\nswer â€" Your marsh land would ifroWany grain or other crop much better if it were possible for you to open surface drains and carry off as much water as possible. Barley is possibly the best small grain crop you can use on it. The bacterial life of the cold marsh soil will be slow in spring. I would therefore recom- 1 mend that when seeding barley you add a fertilizer -5 high in phosphoric acid in order to hasten the growth and produce well matured grain. O. ^ A.C. No. 21 barley is probably the strongest strawed variety and well apong the high yieUiers grown in Ontario Barley should be sown a.s soon as the ground is worked in the spring and at the r»te of about a \ bushel and a half per acre. Barley I straw is not as rich in protein as oats, but it 18 richer in carbo-hydrates. Mil- \ \ let hay is not especially ^ood for dairy cattle. It is comparatively â-  low in protein therefore not over six ' to eight lbs. should be fed daily. ! R. R . : â€" 1 am thinking of making a ' silo. What is the best grain to uae? | j Is oats any good? Answer â€" 1 would not recommend ' anything for silage except com. Fur reasons outlined in answer to question No. I it is not very economical to put clover or other legumes in the silo. I 1 have never heard of oats being ensiled. WHERE SILENCE IS IMPERATIVE atandi ttidt cihcAz ooocl in p^ax^ tCrm arjd Aa/i^ (huifw ptori/€£l thei/i zvoitn 4^n lutz/i time. Jicd JicrSd Jea â€" coitina ibdcuu OTilu aotnjit/^ o; aceyfit p^ CAAp â€"ii one. Oftrvz ,&otld uxzk ti/rm ^/cLlu£J tndt ari^crrvL can oJ&Acl-a^TxttndL anucrt %:\ I tiild you ihat ill .^iriiiojt confi- 1 dence," John stormed ungrily, "ami now everybo<ly in the ueighl>orhood knowi I want Old Baxti^r'.-) farm. If someone doesn't buy it liefure he hears about it and then raise thu price on me, hi- '11 hear it himself and I'll have to pay $20 an acru inorf. Why didn't you keep it to yourself'.'" "But I only told one person," Grace ' protested. '"I just happeuea to men- ' tion to .Minnie .Snelling that you'd like ' to own it . I never said you intended i to buy it." j "Minnie Sneilingl" John snoited. "You might just as well have written it up for th<' country paper, and you know it. Y'ou 'just happened to men- tion it to her and she 'just happeiietl' to stop at every farm from here to town and tell 'em John Ludlow was going to buy old Baxter's farm. I'll keep things to myself after this. If a man can't trust his own wife who on earth can he trust?" , And with a bang of the door that shook a plate off the pantry shelf, John stalked off to the barn. "Ugly old brute," Grace exploded as she picked up the remains of her s favorite plate and put them in the , rubbi.sh basket "It's too bad he can't trust his wife! I didn't tell Minnie he was going to try to get the old farm. I just said he'd like to own it. I'd like to own a limousine and a baby grand, but I don't exepct to so \ai\f, as I live with an old â- niscr like him thai ^ only thinks of buying farms. I'm ; glad I did tell and he can't get the . old ranch. Just that much more hard ' work and another hired man to humor. I'll tell anything I please. I'm no : child to be told to sit down in a cor- not reach out to kilp the needy and „er and keep quiet." .\nd with this en^. JtU th/uA / a-woAtcfTZE^ H. Estabrooks Co. UMITED John, TorXHSto, Wuiaip«(, Si. â€" No. 6-;/6 could ha .re done chat and been a gentleman, but I thought I'd rather let you know where I stood. Then if you understood, we could keep on as partners . If you <lidn't want to re- form. I would still have a chance of keeping still in the future." "Yes, but you ciid both," Grace ob- jected. "You made a terrible fuss about it and then you never told m« anything any more either." "Well, you acte<l as thnujfh you were perfectly right, and didn't c-are a mite what I wanted, so I thought I'd be ju.-<t as independent as you were," said John. "Now we've both acted like a couple of children, let's be goo«i and start over again. I'm just busting for someone to talk to." "I'U sure be glad to know when there is any money to spend," Grace conceded. "I know a do/.en ways to spend a ton dollar bill right now. .And honest. I didn't tell Min you were go- ing to buy the old farm. I just said you'd like to own it. I might have known, though, she'd jump at a chance to gos.-ip." "Well, it's over now and we've got the farm." said John. "So let's for- get it. How about a bite to eat to bind thi< new agreement?" " 'After violent emotion, most peo- ple and all boys demand food.' "' quot- ed Grace . "The. person who said that must have known you. There's a half a lemon pie â€" " but john was al- ready in the pantry. INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST 23. bring forth deeds of mercy and help i.s woefully lacking in the spirit of Christ. The third evidence of genuine religion is sanctity â€" "keep oneself un- spoted from the world." What sort j of a "world" is it that "spots" a man? : Not the world of nature, not the world \ of art. science, or literature; not the world of folks; but it is the world which .Tohn himself calls "the lust of 1 the rttf.sh; the dust of the eyes, and Why Corn Yields are Low. Growing corn under conditions to which it is not adapted is the prin- ' oipal reason for low average yields, , Other reasons why the yield is low are the decrease in soil fertility and the failure on part of the grower to ; rotate crops properly. i The only time when it is desirable to change seed is when an inferior variety of corn has been grown or where a person has made no effort to select the seed properly year after year. In these cases it will pay to secure good seed from a person near- ' by who properly selects his seed,, provided the soil conditions of the two, rarms are similar. If, for some vea- : Bon. home-grown seed ia not in good vitality or of good quality, better re- gults can be obtained by securing first-class seed grown as near home, and under conditions as nearly like those under which it will be planted,, as possible. Every person should select and save Increase Wheat Profits by Increasing Wheat Yields The average increase in yield of wheat obtained from ushig fertilizers by two British and tlirve Aniericau luperimentStatioi'.sovcr periods ranging frmn 5 to fil years' test, averaged 11 bushels per acre. Fertilizing Fall Wheat Pays Kleren bushels per acre iorreftso on vour 25 acre? of vtbcat at present inK-ps would amount toll bus. X "io Lltcs X %Z.2(i pir bu.s -JIJOS.UO Fertilising ot the rule of 300 llw. per acre will pioh..bly cost ^ >Hia (or your 23 ocria .>18T ..>0 Vour return from the In.. creuM on 25 acte» f extl lUeJ J417.50 ^ViiJ /or our Prre BuUrliit A'o. *. on Fall IlTwd/ VrodKCticn. The Soil and Crop Improvement Bureau of the Cai.uJiaa I'crtllizei As-iociatlon 1111 Temple BIdg.; Toronto WOOL Fiirfuere who ehio tbeli wool direct to os jt;t better mices than farmer* who aell to th« gaueral store. ASK ANY FARMER! who has sold his irool both ways, and note ivhat he sajs â€" or. better •till, wrl\» ti3 for our prices ; they wl]! atjow you how much you lose by leUiuji t^the Utaeral Stor« 1^ \Vep«ythehlg1l*«i>rlo<»of »nv6rni â-  IuU|«couatiyniianr«tUcl ir,;i;»wo;l atrlMrg ia CHnniU. VnSoii. ut U TO- uautd the »u ji« iluy w wl u i wetvoJ, 8h)pu» your wvl to-<l.iyâ€" vou tviU l>« ir.of» tli«tt plc.isej Uyou dp, tuJ in B.HKUreU ol a aqunre dttalfrum tii. i H. V. ANDReWS 13 CHURCH 6T, TOROFiTO his own seed, as the corn which was jrrown on his farm is likely to be better suited for planting there than that (frown elsewhere. Many per- sons, however, would rather buy seed than go to the trouble of properly selecting ani! saving it. . For this reason there will always be an opportunity in every locality for one or more persons who are cap- able of producing good seed corn to buihl up a local trade, and thus dis- pose of a part of their crop at seed- corn prices. The community seed- corn grower or breeder not only would be engaged in a profitable busi- ness for himselt'. but would also fur- nish an opportunity for others in his locality to obtain seed suitable for growing on their farms. Seasonal conditions are regarded by many corn growers as dominant factors in growing corn. These conditions vary so greatly from year to year that no one method of seed- bed preparation, planting, or cultiva- tion of corn will consistently give bet- ter yields than every other method. The person who by the exercise of I good judgement use? methods of till- i age that meet the sea.^onal cnii'^aions ' to greatest advantage is the one who, on the average, is the most successful. j The critical period in the growth of corn Is in .luly and .A.ugust, and dur- : ing these months drought and hot i winds may destroy in a few days the I accumulated benefits derived from j thorough work in preparing the seed i bed and caring for the corn during the early part of the season. j Often, because of drought during \ the latter stage of the growth of the corn, that which has the greatest ca- pacity to yield i.s, because of the greater capacity to yield is. because i of the greater development of foliage, ' the first to dry up On the other hand, corn that has j made a smaller growth because of t poor cultural method'? survives the \irought and also produces the great- ' est yield of grain. The person wno consistently prnc- ! tices methods that conserve moisture j and develop plant food, and who I plants his crop opportunely, will, I howev^, obtain the best average I yields for a period- of years. Start The Boy Right. 1 The boys who are just growing up i to High School age are likely to at- tain manhood in the midst of the per- , iod following the close of this war, as- I suming that it is To be won within the next four or five years. Condi- â-  lions surrounding these boys will be much more serious and difficult to cope with than conditions which :iur- 1 round the men of to-day at a corro.s- I ponding age. The world is already crying out for big, capa'olc men, and humanity is humiliated to find how many are only mediocre. The mean- ing of this to you, the father of a boy on the farm, is that you must give your boy the best kind of opportunity. ; You want him to be a better man : than you are. Do not waste his valuable time in these growing, learn- I ing years, \"ilh scrub live stock, with mongrel seed corn, with commonplace stuff which hiigh!: as we'.l be the best. . â€" -. - Vk .\ Good R»ad. I am the road That carries the load From eo'i.,L!ysido to town. If you dr a etgeriin»idm-n-8jsviddv.n If you drag me true 1 will pull for you. And never mire you down. Lesson VIII. Christian Testimonyâ€"; ""' ^'ai"ff'ory of life. Acts 1. 8; Matt. 10. 27 33; James I. 26, 27. Golden Text, Luke 12. 8. Acts 1. 8 Ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earthâ€" The gift of the Holy Spirit was to enable the disciples to spread the great news. They were to testify of the things they had seen and heard and the results in their own consciousness or experience. They were sometimes horribly persecuted because of their witnessing and often sealed their testimony with t'neir blood. Matt, 10 27-33 Verse 27. Speak ye in the light . . proclaim upon the house-tops --In the previous verse Jesus e.xhorts his disciples not to fear those who wili Important Things in Success. The work of the young man until he leaves college has been that of getting an education. There are, however, three by-products of this process of getting an education any one of which for success in life, is more important than the education itself. "These by-products are: Com- mon sense, character and integrity. Common sense is the ability to de- course began resolution Grace began to slam dishes into tile pun as a means of working off the storm. Dinner found John still silei't and moody, still chewing the cud of his wrath and ilisappointmcnt. Grace made one or two attempts at conversa- tion i>iit not being met half-way, loft- ily tossed her head and pretended to be absorbed in pleasing thoughts. John needn't think he could lord it over her that way. She could be just as inde- pendent as he was. Suppose •^lo didn't like her telling. He might have been a gentleman. Plenty of wives told more important things than that and their husbands never scolded and took on like tyrants. But when days roiled into weeks and John still stuck to his policy of keeping his. own counsel, Grace's faith in the absolute right of her own to waver. Thev had L'ide as to the relative importance of always talked everything over, and things â€" the ability to select from among the several possible lines of action which lie before -you the one act which is best, the one act which will yield the largest return. Character is the ability to control I>ersecute them but to remember jgnsg tells you you ought to do; the she missed the comradeship. John no longer sulked, he could not remain bad-tempered if he tried. He was once more whistling and joking, and willing to talk about the war in Eur- ope. But when it came to personal yourself, body and mind; the ability affairs he kept a stubborn silence. to do those thins:? which your common Grace was at first amused. John th»t there can be no ultimate conceal- ment of ta:uth-^it must como forth. What la taught in the darkness of private communication is to be made known in the light of the whole world, and what is whispered Is to be shout- ed from the tops of the houses. 28. Be not afraid of them that kill the body â€" Danger of physical injury and even death itself must not halt •.he messaire. The most extreme sacri- fice must be ventured rather than give up loyalty to the truth. Not able to ability, above all, to do things which are disagreeable, which you do not like. It takes but little character to do difficult things if you like them. It t.ikes a lot of character to do things which are tireso/ne, monotonous and unpleasant. By integrity I do not mean merely thought he would teach her a lesson, she smiled to herself, the day he brought home a tractor without tell- ing her he intended to buy one. But when the purchase of the tractor was followed by the building of new cement walks and a watering trough at the barn, her aniasement tuj ned into dismay. If John had «o much the kind of integrity which will keep money to spend, why didn't she know a mm out of jail. I mean that about it? She had always known straightforward honest.v of purpose before when 'thing? were to be kil' the soul â€" No bodily injury can which makes a man truthful, not only bought or improvements to ba made, to others but with himself, which makes a man high-minded, gives him high aspirations and high ideals. -A. Child's Fancy. touch the real self, the inner life of the spirit. Christian history is full of noble e-xamples in illustration where men have died gloriously rath- er than surrender their convictions. Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell â€" Which may ^ ,. , „ , mean either (1) God, whose power ex- '"'"e flowers, you love me so, tends beyond this life, or (2) Satan,; You could not do without me; into whose power the wicked surrend- little birds, that come and go, er themselves. i You sing sweet songs about me; I'y-ai. T^^•o sparrows sold for a q little moss, observed bv few, penny? . ... ye are of more value than many sparrows â€" The word "'spar- row" may mean any small bird. The teaching ' i.-< that human life is more precious in God's sig'nt than tho life of the lower animals, and that kind- ness -to animals is part of God's law. That round the tree is creeping. You like my head to rest on you. When I am idily sleeping. 32, 33. Who shall confess me whosoever shall deny me â€" Literally, "confess in me" â€" "make me the cen- tral point and object of his confes- sion." One of the earlest names for a Christian was "confessor," be- cause of his bearing witness to Christ. This confession was not a mere ver- bal assertion but much rather the testimony of the life as v.-eil. a,s Jesus clearly states in Matt, 7, 21, 22; "Not every one that saith unto me. Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king- dom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say unto me in that day. Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name and by thy name cast out . demon^s, and by thy name .lomany mighty works? And then I will profess unto them, I never knew vou .' James' 1. '26, 27 2f>. If any roan thinketh himself to be religious â€" The.''e vorses^re the con- clusion of the Intensely praitical and ethical discussion of the relation be- tween faith and works. We have here a terse and femarkable clear defina- tion of true rergion. .According to James true religion consists in mas- tery- -"bridleth not his tongue." It is iiy the tongue that men particular- ly express themselves, and if n man has an unruly tongue it is quite clear that the rest of his nature is un- bridled. The first evideijco, therefore, that a man is truly veH.giou3 is that he has control of himself, k religion that d^oes not produce this result is a sh.im relijyion "ThU m.<»n'3 religion is vain." It is a fraud. The second pv'denco of true religion is philan- thropy- "Pure religion and undefiled before our Go<l and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and wid iws in ruslies by the river side. You bow when I come near you; fish, you leap about with pride. Because you think I hear you: river, you shine clear and bright, To tempt me to look in you; water lilies, pure and white, You hope that I shall win you. pretty things, you love me so, I sec I must not leave you; You'd find it very dull. I know, I should not like to grieve you Don't wrinkle up. you silly moss; My (lowers, you need not shiver; My little buds, don't look so cross; Don't talk so loud, my river. Care of the Window*' and Door Screens Quite often too little attention is given to the window and door screens, and therefore the screening of the house is quite an item, which if tho proper care be given them they can be r.i.ide til li.st .several seasons. They should be given a coat of paint when brought into use in the spring, .\ ''ttlc linseed oil placed on a rag and the wire screens rubbed thoroughly on both sides with it, sev- eral times du'ing the summer and again when th« s'reens are rem ved and stored awny for tho winter, will be found sufficient to preser\'e and keep them from becoming rust.v, There were no end of things she want ed, if money was so plentiful. Surely John could not have been serious when he made that silly threat to keep things to himself? If he were not serious, John proved that at least he meant to give the plan a thorough trial . The finishing touch came when ho walked in one day and tossed a legal document into Grace's lap. She took it up won- deringly and found it to be the deed for tho Baxter farm. "Why didn't you tell me you were going to buy this?" she demanded. "I think when it's a question of more work and a big outlay of money I might at least be consulted." â- 'I didn't tell you because I wanted to get it at as low a figure as pos- sible," John replied. "I told you some months ago I'd like to get it, and woke up next morning to find everybody knew I was going to try to buy it. N«.xt time I drove by there the old man ambled out and told me his 'figger' was $125 an acre. I .\ dedicated House. Dedications usually are associated with churches and- temples, but the writer knows of a new hou.se which was formally dedicated and .set aside for its great purpose of providing a roof-tree for a family. In the newel post of the raftered hall there was deposited a box con- taining an account of the building, its cost, lime of construction, the fact that its erection was the fulfillment of a boyhood aspiration, the history of the builder's family, their pictures, and a message in a few strong words to the descendant or whoever should open the box at some far future time. When the post was ready to set, rhe builder gathered his family to- gether, and after a prayer that the Master Builder might approve of this house, the record was read aloud, then p magnificent tenor voice broke forth in a song of prai.*e and thanksgiving, after which a little child placed the box in the newel post and with the re- citing of part of the "Hanging of the Crane" the house had received it» hallowing ceremony. The builder, as a little boy. dreamed of a gray stone mansion "all his own." and through the struggle of youth and manhood the ideal held, but it was not until middle life that tha opportunity came of its realiza- tion. The planning .m derection of the "y.iilding had been a labor of love, as stone by stone it grew, visualizing the hope of years. The well-cho.sen site, with outiuok acro.ss a broad river, beyond which showed blue mountains broken here and there by rugged gaps, formed a pleasing change from the wide, sweeping prairies of the regivin in which the builder spent niary of the years during which he had^ ^c- cumulat.^d the fortune which ndidn possible the undertaking. The builder felt that a house Vas almost as holy a place as a, temple, and on the completion of the Jonged for structure planned this little service as an express: )n of thankfulness, joy and belief in the sancily of a build- ing destined to house a human family and to form that which we call "home."' although poets have spoken of it as "heaven upon earth." The Brida! Color The choice of white for wedding gowns is really of comparatively mod- ern origin. The Roman brides wore yellow, and in most Eastern countries pink is the bridal color. During the Middle .Ages and in the Renaissance period brines wore crimson, to the ex- clusion of all other colors. Most of the Planta genet and Tudor queens were married in that vivid hue which is still popular in parts of Brittany, where the Lride is usually dressed in crimson brocade. It was Mary Stuart who first changed the color of tha told him he could probablv get it if he bridal garments. At her marriag« waited for someone who didn't know ''^it'^ Francis the Second of France m how it wa.? run down, and drove on. ' 1558. which took place not before the Last week he offered it to me for $100 a'tar but before the great doors of an acre cash, and finally agreed to ; N'otre-Dp.mc.she was gowned ui white take a ^1,000 pavmcnt and a land con- , l>iocade. with a train Oi pale biue tract for tho balance. By keeping I'"''.', sn velvet six yards in length, my mouth shut I got wh.it I wante<i." ! This innovation catised a gicat stiv in "But I wouldn't have told if I had , t'le fashionable world at that time, thougth It was anything important." It was not, however, until quite at the Grace said. "I never tell anything I end of the seventeenth century that know matters." pure whito--the color worn by r&yti! "Everything personal is important widowsâ€" became popular for bridal between nvm and wife," John came back. "Neither one has any business to tell things they talk over at home. They don't know how the next one is going to twist things, nor how tho story is going to sound when the g.irments. I'si? Brown .SuKar. I'wiNo you tried brown sugar in yiuir preserves? The most astute house- neighborhood gets through with it." | „.;fg can detect no shade of diffcr- "Well, you needn't have jumped on cnce between it and ordinary white me the way you did," Grace protested, sugar. I ".\ body would have thought I had There are throe grades of brown su- it is also neccs^«ury to give '^he cinimitted the unpardonable sin. Lots gar, generally da-ssified as bright. ,vel- frames a coat of paint or varnish in of wives tell more important thin.gs low and d:>rk yellow. They contain order to pre!<erve them. They should and their husbands don't row them." i from 7 to 10 per cent Itss's sucrose if- possible be ttjred in a dry place' 'â- ^'o, nor they never trust them â-  ihan refined sugar but they have in when not in use. A great Ae-\\ of;a?r«in." John said. '"They jusf shut addition, from 4 to 8 per cent, of in- annoyanee will be avoide^i and nihny'up like clams, and their wives never U-ert sugar, which has a sweeter taste "ollars will be s:tved if scree-, doors H'^w what's the matter nor why they ! than cane sugar and is the sugar their affliction." A religion that does and windows are ihus cared for. j never talk things over any more. I found in honey, molas.-ies and fruits.